DANCEST 805 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Orbitofrontal Cortex, Supplementary Motor Area, Reciprocal Altruism
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Moral identity: the degree to which being a moral person (moral self-schema) is important to a person"s identity (self-definition) Proscriptive moral regulation: focuses on inhibiting motivation to commit harmful or immortal acts (e. g. cheating: cues that diminish the importance of moral concerns are particularly impactful for people high in moral identity internalization. Inhibiting proscriptive moral behaviours seems to be more automatic for high internalizers than for their low internalizing counterparts: high symbolizers might be more restraint to the influence of processing frames when evaluating unfair acts towards others. In contrast to prescriptive moral behaviours, the two dimensions of moral identity are equally important in regulating individual"s reactions to situational cues when faced with the temptation to act immorally. Internalization primacy principle (ipp) (a) internalization is more important. Internalization-symbolization equality principle (isep) than symbolization (b) symbolization is more important when internalization is low (a) internalization and symbolization both shape how individuals react to cues in their environment.
